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Royal DSM N.V. and AVEBE U.A. today announce that the business group DSM Food Specialties and AVEBE Food have entered into a strategic partnership. The combination of DSM’s enzyme expertise and AVEBE’s starch knowledge will lead to new opportunities ...

Wind turbines and native prairie grasses have nothing to do with America’s favorite snack, potato chips, but they’re helping Kettle Foods earn recognition for building the greenest food manufacturing plant in the U.S. The U.S. Green Building Council ...

Rubbish from McDonald's fast food restaurants will be used to power hospitals and theatres in a pilot scheme to begin today. Eleven fast food restaurants in Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley, South Yorkshire, will take part in an initiative to turn w...

A new Walkers TV advert, part of a massive £7.5m marketing spend, is currently on air celebrating Walkers crisps 100% British-farmed status and showing Gary Lineker in a down to earth role – quite literally. Since July this year, all Walkers crisps hav...

La cadena de restaurantes Burger King anunció ayer que ofrecerá alimentos más saludables para niños menores de 12 años, incluyendo pollo asado a la parrilla en lugar de frito, así como manzanas cortadas para que parezcan papas fritas. Burger King Hold...

As part of an article on "How to reinvent your brand"an example is given on "How Walkers took back lunch".   During the campaign, Walkers enjoyed an 18 per cent increase in sales. An additional 10 million bags of crisps were sold i...

Fast-food chain operator Burger King Holdings Inc. on Tuesday named Julio Ramirez executive vice president, global operations, effective immediately.

The potential sale of Wendy's International continued its progression yesterday, even as the company faced bitter criticism from a group of franchisees. Wendy's has reached a confidentiality agreement with Sandell Asset Management Corp. so the inves...

PepsiCo India's FritoLay brand is revving up through an array of marketing campaigns and variant launches, with the onset of cooler climes and its flagship cola business taking the seasonal backseat. According to Deepika Warrier, marketing director, F...

Japanese snack food maker Calbee Foods Co. Friday launched operations at a new plant in California for making its mainstay products "Kappa Ebisen"shrimp chips and "Saya-endo"snow pea crisps.The new plant has a monthly output capacit...

El Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo, Neiker, tiene como objetivo conseguir una o más variedades de patata que reúnan las características óptimas tanto para el consumo en fresco como para el proceso industrial.

National Starch Food Innovation has become the latest ingredients firm to signal a price rise in the face of rising raw material costs, with starches for food, beverage and pharmaceutical use set to become more expensive.